As Georgia’s State Security Service representative, Deputy Head of Information-Analytical Department Kakha Kemoklidze has told IPN, the so-called anti-fire zones have been observed in direction of four villages in the conflict zone – Avlevi, Tamarasheni, Tseronisi and Knolevi.

A Russian tourist was killed in the republic of Abkhazia. The man died as a result of a stab wound that he suffered in an attack, officials with the Ministry for Internal Affairs said. The incident occurred near the village of Achandara, the Gudauta district, Russian media say.

The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 105 personnel at various companies and institutions, with 52 of them being detained over links to Fethullah Gülen, the U.S.-based Islamic preacher who is widely believed to have led the July 15, 2016, deadly coup attempt, foreign media say.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived in Doha for talks with Qatar's emir and foreign minister on the second leg of his four-day trip to the Gulf to help seek a resolution to the ongoing GCC crisis, foreign media reported.

This is not a creeping but very obvious and dynamic occupation process, having been underway since the year of 2008, - Georgia’s State Reconciliation Minister Ketevan Tsikhelashvili has told reporters.

Members of the jihadist group Islamic State admitted the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. This was announced by the TV channel "Alsumaria", referring to the local source in the Nainawa province of Iraq, - foreign media say.

The de-facto Prosecutor General of breakaway Tskhinvali region (so-called South Ossetia) has handed over a list of Georgian citizens that are planned to be put on internationally wanted list to Russia.

Amnesty International said on Tuesday it had identified a pattern of attacks by Iraqi forces and the U.S.-led military coalition backing them in the battle for Mosul that violated international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes, Reuters reports.